Ten tactics to improve your GC game
A ten-part video series from a live golf croquet coaching session. Each lesson is paired with the same tactic played in championship matches, called by expert commentators.
aster these tactics and your results will improve against those who don't think tactically.
Listen to all the advice, make up your own mind, and put in thirty minutes of serious practice. It beats an afternoon of casual play.
The zone of opportunity in front of the hoop, and why short beats long when you can't be sure.
When you can't win the hoop this turn, make it your opponent's problem instead.
The question every turn starts with. If the answer is no, which ball do you clear? Hit the last ball in, and clear far enough.
Two-thirds of all the shots you'll play. The bread and butter of golf croquet.
Making your opponent play the wrong ball.
Hit it straight in and you stay, they go. The full demonstration.
Just kiss the ball.
Park the ball in the jaws and the hoop is all but yours, plus first ball to the next one.
Where every ball goes at hoop one: the control ball, go long rather than short, and the standard red spot.
The full series is also on CroquetVideos.
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